Whereas the World Assembly has never formally established a website,
And whereas the creation of an official World Assembly website would prove beneficial for individuals to stay up-to-date on World Assembly affairs,
Therefore, be it resolved by the World Assembly that the following provisions are enacted:
- The World Assembly Website Management Committee (WAWMC) shall be established.
- The WAWMC shall create and publish a website within one calendar year of the passage of this resolution. Upon this initial publication, the website shall follow all parameters for the website as laid out within this resolution for the time of publication. During this time, the WAWMC shall purchase a domain that shall be under the ownership of the WAWMC and the World Assembly, on which the website shall be hosted. If this domain becomes jeopardized for any reason, the WAWMC shall convene to discuss potential options, and agree upon a solution as efficiently as possible, porting the website over to the new domain, if necessary.
- The WAWMC shall be responsible for advertising the website to all existing and new World Assembly members, and shall inform any new member of its existence within three business days of their acceptance into the world Assembly.
- The WAWMC shall be responsible for updating the website so that it is as up-to-date as it can possibly be, with regards to the standards of this resolution.
- In the event that the website crashes, goes down, or otherwise has an outage, the WAWMC shall restore full functionality to the website as quickly as the committee possibly can.
- If someone targets the website with a hack, a denial of service attack, or any other unlawful malicious action, the WAWMC shall engage the perpetrator with legal action to get proportionate retribution for the act committed.
- The WAWMC shall maintain a backup version of the servers, updating it whenever major, World Assembly-wide news or changes are made or published onto the website.
- The WAWMC shall ensure that the Website is compatible with all prominent Internet protocols used within member nations.
- The website shall be equipped with the following features:
- All passed World Assembly resolutions shall be published promptly after their passage, with vote margin, date passed, resolution number, authoring delegation and resolution title. This shall also have a search feature to make resolutions easily browsable.
- Every member-nation shall be granted a page that they can freely edit, to publicly post any information as it pertains to their nation, their delegation, their relationship to the World Assembly, legislative agenda, voting policy, or anything else that they deem fit. These pages shall not be used to encourage noncompliance with any World Assembly resolution, but they may be used to express disappointment with a resolution's passage or failure, or to express disagreement with an action of the World Assembly.
- All committees of the World Assembly shall have a webpage to post committee updates, reports, or any other information pertinent to the committee's function and purpose.
- For proposed legislation being debated, livestreams of the debates shall be broadcast on the website.
- If the WAWMC deems any other features necessary for the maintenance, functionality, or purpose of the World Assembly website, they may institute those features at their discretion.
- No member shall censor the World Assembly website from anyone within their nation, and must ensure that access to the World Assembly site is free and open to the public, insofar as internet access can be reasonably established.
- All official notices of the World Assembly shall be posted on the World Assembly website.
Taking up another debate chambers, the still-mysterious representatives of The Serene appear once again. Time is seemingly looping in the World Assembly headquarters, and although some may certainly claim to see the trio in two places at once, it is certainly impossible that this is the case. Regardless, they appear here now, this time with a seemingly more sophisticated piece of legislation. Though seemingly redundant to mention at this point, they once again speak in unity:
"We have often absorbed species and planets who have sophisticated internet protocols. The World Assembly assuredly has some of the most powerful Internet servers of the time, and as such, the organization lacking a presence online is a waste of resources that should be remedied. We decided to reserve a room in the "Furtherment of Democracy" hallway in order to debate this bill, on the grounds that increasing individual access to the World Assembly, its happenings, and other foreign nations and their happenings increases visibility and thus increases democratic practices. We also considered reserving a room in the "Free Press" corridor, but after light consideration, have deemed it more fitting for "Furtherment of Democracy".
We have designed this bill in such a way that, if it is passed and then later repealed, there should still be a functioning World Assembly website for at least four to five years, with an absolute minimum of six months. It may not be up-to-date, but this should give adequate time for all member-nations and relevant entities to export any unsaved information, and will hopefully effectively accomplish the goals of this bill.
We have also put a cap on the spending that shall go towards the committee created by the bill, so that no more than one ten-thousandth of the World Assembly's funds can go towards the committee. We feel that this is a sensible and reasonable restriction, given the low-operating cost of such an operation. Almost certainly, this number could be placed lower, but we wanted to set it up so that the website may be operational and robust, even if the World Assembly stumbles upon hard times, while having minimal effect on other functions of the World Assembly. We hope that this number can be agreed upon, but we are willing to change it."